Today Adobe announced the public pre-release version of the Flash Player 10. Improvements include:

• Creative Expression
  
  • Custom Filters and Effects
  • 3D Effects
  • New Text Engine
  • Text Layout Components
  • Drawing API Enhancements
  • Color Management
• Visual Performance Improvements
  
  • GPU Compositing
  • GPU Blitting
  • Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1)
  • Vector Data Type
• Rich Media
  • Dynamic Streaming
  • RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
  • Speex Audio Codec
• Other Community Requested Enhancements
  
  • File Reference
  • Dynamic Sound Generation
  • Large Bitmap Support
  • Context Menu
  • GB18030 Compliance
  • Ubuntu OS Support

My big interests lie in the performance areas, as I am starting to hit a lot of the barriers of the Flash player as customers demand more and more from the Flex applications we make (hoping to show a big one soon – which will explain my lack of blog posts recently).

Also of note was the mention of the possibility of peer to peer UDP communication. I haven’t dug into this one much but if so WOW!

Finally as pointer to the “squeaky wheel gets the grease” ideal the guys involved in the “Adobe, make some noise” campaign finally have something to make some noise about.